Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can provide rapid, significant improvements in severe symptoms of several mental health conditions. ECT is used to treat: Severe depression, particularly when accompanied by detachment from reality (psychosis), a desire to commit suicide or refusal to eat.
DYMALLY, Mervyn Malcolm. Biography. A Caribbean immigrant, a longtime member of the California legislature, and the first black elected to statewide office in California, Mervyn Dymally represented a southern Los Angeles County district in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years.
Dan Kuykendall (1924â2008), U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1967 to 1975; Fulton Kuykendall (born 1953), former NFL football player; James Sloan Kuykendall (1878â1928), West Virginia House Delegate; Kurt Kuykendall (born 1952), retired American soccer Goalkeeper; Marlin Kuykendall, former mayor of Prescott, Arizona